This chapter it's the most interesting I have found. Because it asks the hardest question for a philosopher. What is the universe? This question leads to more questions which makes it even more interesting. For example, if the world is infinite or is it finite because we don't know if it has an end. Then if we don't know if it has an end than we can say it is infinite.
It is very confusing but after you read deeply, you can understand all this statements by the philosophers. There is this story about the elephant with his back to a turtle, and the turtle over a spider and a spider over a lot of rocks. Bertrand Russell says this story in a different and an easier way to understand, he only says that a lot of turtles over more turtles. This story talks about how the universe is over many layers and many layers.
I didn't understand this part, but it is still interesting how you can say our universe is over many layers. I think it is infinite because we will never know if this has an end. So it means that the universe is infinite and that this chapter shouldn't have many confusing questions.
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I also think about this question about wether or not the Universe is infinite or finite. As said in this chapter, Savater states many points of view, so as I was reading I got a little confused as you German. I think that to know if this universe is finite or infinite is a very hard answer to get, but from my point of view this Universe is infinite.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you in thinking that this is the most interesting chapter, since we started to read the book. I also liked what you said that when philosophers try to answer the questions about the universe, they end up with more questions that the ones they started with. This is mainly because we are trying to guess what is the universe, but the truth is that we don't know, and that is one of the most important problems with humanity, we are always trying to guess instead of documenting ourselves before making an opinion or a choice.
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